Sikhism and women: history, texts and experience/

Sikhism and women: history, texts and experience/ edited by Doris R. Jakobsh - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010. - vi, 383 p. ; 22 cm.

Introduction : Sikhism and women: contextualizing the issues / Doris R. Jakobsh and Eleanor Nesbitt --
Guru, the goddess: The Dasam Granth and Its implications for constructions of gender in Sikhism / Robin Rinehart --
Tracing gender in the texts and practices of early Khalsa / Purnima Dhavan --
Shameful continuities: the practice of female infanticide in colonial Punjab / Anshu Malhotra --
Novels of Bhai Vir Singh and the imagination of Sikh identity, community, and nation / C. Christine Fair --
Phulkaris: the crafting of rural women's roles in Sikh heritage / Michelle Maskiell --
Lowly shoes on lowly feet: some Jat Sikh women's views on gender and equality / Nicola Mooney --
Changing identities and fixed roles: the experiences of Sikh women / Preeti Kapur and Grishwar Misra --
Why did I not light the fire? The refeminization of ritual in Sikhism / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh --
Role of Sikh women in their religious institutions: a contmeporary account / Jagbir Jhutti-Johal --
Sikh women in Vancouver: an analysis of their psychosocial issues / Kamala Elizabeth Nayar --
Making Sikh women refugees in 1990's USA / Interpal Grewal --
By and indirect route: women in 3HO/Sikh Dharma / Constance Elsberg --
Transnational migration theory in population geography: gendered practices in networks linking Canada and India / Margaret Walton-Roberts --
Transnational Sikh women's working lives: place and the life course / Karnwal Mand.

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Women in Sikhism
Sikh women--Religious life
Sikh diaspora
Women in literature

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